The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!